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Genus Nanorchestes Topsent & Trouessart, 1890

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Genus Nanorchestes Topsent & Trouessart, 1890

Introduction

In addition to the identified species listed here, unidentified species of Nanorchestes have been reported from Australia by Rounsevell & Greenslade (1988), Noble et al. (1996a, 1996b), Longstaff et al. (1999), Osler et al. (2000), Kinnear & Tongway (2004), Adolphson & Kinnear (2008), Green (2010) and Proctor et al. (2011).

 

General References

Adolphson, H. & Kinnear, A. 2008. Acari (mite) assemblages under plantations of bluegum, Eucalyptus globulus, in southwestern Australia. Pedobiologia 51: 427–437

Green, D. 2010. The soil mites of buttongrass moorland (Tasmania) and their response to fire as a management tool. pp. 179–183 in Sabelis, M.W. & Bruin, J. Trends in Acarology. Proceedings of the 12th International Congress. Dordrecht : Springer.

Kinnear, A. & Tongway, D. 2004. Grazing impacts on soil mites of semi-arid chenopod shrublands in Western Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 56: 63–82

Longstaff, B.C., Greenslade, P.J.M., Colloff, M., Reid, I., Hart, P. & Packer, I. 1999. Managing Soils in Agriculture. The Impact of Soil Tillage Practices on Soil Fauna. Canberra, Australia : Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Publication No 99/18. pp. 65.

Noble, J.C., Tongway, D.J., Roper, M.M. & Whitford, W.G. 1996a. Fire studies in mallee (Eucalyptus spp.) communities of western New South Wales: spatial and temporal fluxes in soil chemistry and soil biology following prescribed fire. Pacific Conservation Biology 2: 398-413

Noble, J.C., Whitford, W.G. & Kaliszewski, M. 1996b. Soil and litter microarthropod populations from two contrasting ecosystems in semi-arid eastern Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 32: 329-346

Osler, G.H.R., van Vliet, P.C.J., Gauci, C.S. & Abbott, L.K. 2000. Changes in free living soil nematode and micro-arthropod communities under a canola-wheat-lupin rotation in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Soil Research 38: 47–59

Proctor, H., Kanowski, J., Catterall, C.P., Wardell-Johnson, G. & Reis, T. 2011. Rainforest-restoration success as judged by assemblages of soil- and litter-dwelling mites (Arachnida: Acari). Zoosymposia 6: 234–254

Rounsevell, D.E. & Greenslade, P. 1988. Cuticle structure and habitat in the Nanorchestidae (Acari : Prostigmata). Hydrobiologia 165: 209-212

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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28-Jul-2010 28-Jul-2010 MOVED
07-May-2013 09-Jul-2010 ADDED
08-Jul-2010 MODIFIED